We are looking forward to meeting Matt Dickinson on Monday!
Upcoming events
Event
Whole School Dress up Day - Heroes
2nd June
Public Holiday - School Closed
5th June
Whole School
Busking Day
8th June
Primary School
Dance Extravaganza Y1-Y6
12th June
Theatre
Whole School Assembly - End of Year
23rd June
Sports Hall
A note from the Principal
26 May
2023
A note from the Principal
I hope you have
spotted our new Primary school mural taking shape outside the Year 3 and Year 4
building. This will feature a poem written by our enrichment students and has
been commissioned to reflect and celebrate the uniqueness and creativity of our
students. We hope it will be completed in the next few weeks!
Do also look out for an article in today’s Patana News
reflecting on the successes of the year in terms of progress with our
Development Plan goals. We feel it has been a rewarding and productive year and
would value your input and feedback via a short end of year survey. Additionally, we extend
a warm invitation to Primary parents to join us for an informal coffee morning
on Tuesday, 30 May, where we can reconnect and look forward together.
Proud of you Patana!
Sarah McCormack
Wellbeing
This week the Smile Squad, led by the student councillor have been spotting students and staff who exemplify the qualities below!
Learning
This term, we will be learning about the theme ''Might Metals". If you would like to find out more about this please follow this link
PE Blocks
Continuing next week:
Save the Date...
There will be a whole school Dress-up Day on the 2nd
June, with the theme of “Heroes”.
Global Citizenship
Recycling
Please can you send in any card boxes, cereal packets or items that could be used for junk modelling.
Busking Day
This is a charity event where all the students in Year 3 to 6 perform an act on repeat for about 40 minutes in a bid to raise money. During this time, the other students, parents and teachers walk around and drop coins at their favourite acts.
The Y3 students have been challenged to start earning 5 and 10 baht coins to use when going around and watching the other students performing. We will be sorting our own acts next week in our PSHE lessons.
Reading Book Amnesty!
We are missing a HUGE number of our levelled reading books from Year 3. Please would you mind having a really good look at home for any books that may belong to Year 3 (they should have a label on them saying 'Year 3 Curriculum') as we are missing over 100 books, making it extremely difficult for the children to change their book.
A Curriculum Enhanced by Engagement, Motivation and Critical Thinking
Engagement, motivation and critical thinking –
how do these contribute to effective learning?
On Tuesday morning, during our Parent Workshop,
many parents gathered to learn more about how the significance of these skills
impact our learning. When asked about what key skills parents believed their
children needed to be successful, there was a clear pattern: empathy,
resilience, problem solving. As we dived deeper into the Characteristics of
Effective Learning, we found that they encompass and incorporate lots of these
skills – and more!
Through different activities, discussions and
feedback, we learnt that engagement goes beyond participation; it’s active
involvement and a curation of curiosity in the process of learning. Motivation
encompasses the ownership and child-led direction of the learning and critical
thinking allows children to analyse, evaluate and problem solve independently.
All of these skills were on display as our parents took on some activities
themselves: creating fractions using Lego, then building a bridge using
newspaper and other resources. High levels of engagement, motivation and
critical thinking were on display as we saw a huge range of bridges that were
strong enough to hold wooden bricks!
Birthdays
Happy Birthday this week goes to:
Yomi 3PNadia 3CRanbir 3TMako 3P
We hope you have a great day!
Please ensure any snack or Birthday cakes/doughnuts that come into school are nut free. This is to ensure we are keeping all our students safe as we have some students in the Y3/4 Building who have severe nut allergies. Thank you for your help with this.
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